Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer. Engineer Thomas Kite Sharpless gives a demonstration of the EDVAC at the ...

A series of celebratory events is taking place this week to mark the centenary of computer pioneer Alan Turing's birth. To mark the occasion the BBC has commissioned seven articles to explore his ...

Although the early days of computing saw a lot of exotic and long-forgotten inventions, the architecture of LEO, which marked its 60th anniversary on Thursday, is remarkable for its normality. While ...

A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into friendly desktop tools. This was not a dream ...

Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general purpose progammable calculator in 1941. He pioneers the use of binary math and boolean logic in electronic calculation. Colossus, a British ...

After achieving success designing the first electronic general-purpose computer, early computer pioneers J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly created one of the first computer companies, The ...